Feeding your cichlid pellet foods specified for marine fish

[ewok]

does anyone else do this? i have fed my frontosas and istlanum flakes made by ocean nutrition - Formula One.
i personally don't see any harm or even difference between MOST cichlid pellets and marine fish pellets... if anything i would think that marine fish get an even richer diet than their freshwater counterparts.
thoughts? <- this guy is eating marine popcorn...

 

[ECarbonel]

let us know how it goes bro

 

[ewok]

well nothing bad has happened... i mean if you look at the ingredients it's all pretty much the same. i'm just wondering if anyone else does stuff like this...

i know discus keepers use formula one for their fish and i've used it on all sorts of FW fish and it works fine. i can't say if it's better or not, but it's been pretty good so far

 

[QueenslandeR]

sounds alright to me, when you read the ingrediants list on most they're the same. i'd still prefer to not feed them marine food though , i know that NLS claim that their ingredients in all their foods are almost identical but with the different percentages

 

[mithesaint]

I fed a full bottle of marine pellets to my mbuna once, simply because I had it. Everyone did fine. Lots of breeding. Not so much now, but I think that's because the tank is full now, and there's not many hiding spaces left over for babies at this point.

 

[Modest_Man]

It's all the same. I've got some Omega One with garlic marine food for my cichlids.